Vintage Divas!

These vintage beauties have been let out of their dark attic boxes, or found new life as a journal or tag :)

Vintage Celebration Decorations

Vintage Yearbook pages, French post cards, and antique photo album pages make perfect party garlands for graduations, family reunions, or "you are old" birthday parties! Use falling apart yearbooks and paper ephemera to create them, or purchase these from VintageScraps.etys.com

je t'aime (Vintage French for Valentine's Day)

There's just something about antique French ephemera, illustrations and text pages, that seem to create perfect Valentine gifts and deocrations!

Valentine's Day Goodness

Cards, garlands, and nostalgic journals ready for the holiday of love!

F R E S H pics

Some of my new etsy.com favorites :)

Craft a Vintage storybook Paper Wreath

Time consuming but worth it, give new life to a falling apart book by using its pages in a hand rolled wreath! Remove the pages- easy if the spine is missing or broken, roll and secure with tape or glue, and fasten the pages to a circle of heavy cardstock or card board. This one was made from a children's book and 1950's UNC dorm directory pages, and was featured on etsy.com's front page, which was very exciting :)

Vintage Storybook Paper Crafts

Give new life to abandoned, unreadable children's books! Paper wreaths, scrapbook embellishments, Easter ornaments, and collage art make use of beautiful, vintage images. So go rescue castoffs at second hand bookstores and library sales, and have some fun!

The love bun

...just hopped into the shop, ready for Valentine's Day!



Plain buns are also available

...because nothing says "I love you" like sarcasm.

You'd think after living in the South for 16 years, I'd be nicer, partial to grits and sweet tea, saying "y'all" and "might could." But I just haven't shaken my Chicago suburban roots, loaded with dry sarcasm and nasal tones, partial to the Bears, unsweetened tea, and cold weather. So here is my real self; the dreamy cottage pinks are really just a front!